Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet meeting, failed to show up at the Foreign Office at all. Instead, he sent a "Dear Harold" note to 10 Downing Street. "The events of last night and the early hours of this morning have brought to a head a really serious issue," he wrote. "It is, in short, the way in which this government is run and the manner in which we reach our decisions." Like many Britons, Brown feels that Wilson has arrogated too much power to himself, and that his one-man leadership is turning Britain's parliamentary system into a sort of U.S.-style...
Other things become immobile, too. While U.S. retail stores and services are cashing in on the new leisure by lengthening their open hours, Russia's have tended to close up with the factories. Short-stocked Muscovites, who have been used to shopping on weekends, set up such a howl when stores started closing down for two days that the city council recently ordered Sunday reopenings for some grocery stores, shoe-repair shops and department stores. The two-day weekend has also been adopted by subway stations, clinics, state banks and libraries, frustrating everyone from moviegoers to Russia...
Last Perch. Dubček's men warned the people against going too far too fast with liberalization. Perhaps mindful of the 20 Russian divisions poised across the border in East Germany, even the most outspoken reformers stopped short of suggesting any break with the Soviet Union. The press did, however, give surprisingly frank coverage of last week's riots in Poland, which were partly sparked by the events in Czechoslovakia...
...arbitrary authority and his defense of the oppressed." He denies that Russell is senile, and lists "this Renaissance man's" current projects: the second and third volumes of his autobiography, an "updating" of the New Testament (based on current events), a book of epigrams, and adaptations of his short stories for the stage...
Critics of the "war crimes tribunal" receive short shift from Schoenman. "We never represented it as a trial," he says, and compares the procedure to a "grand jury" for examining evidence without the "adversary process." He admits that the judges--including Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Vladmir Dedijer--were already convinced that the U.S. had committed war crimes in Vietnam. "We're all conditioned...the question is how the evidence is dealt with," he says flatly. The tribunal felt that the Viet Cong had not committed war crimes. "Their resistance is a heroic chapter...